 | Kenneth Hilton - Education - 1999 - 138 pages
...behold our vessels . . . wrested [taken] from their lawful destinations ... in [to] British ports. . . . We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States . . . According to this excerpt from President Madison's Declaration of War, what seemed to be the... | |
 | Andrew Santella - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 74 pages
...message to the US Congress. Madison wrote that the United States had tried to be peaceful, but "we behold on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States." Madison believed the United States had no choice but to declare war on Great Britain. "Peace as we... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 784 pages
...still continuing to inflict, on the United States, sums up the situation in these impressive words: "We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain,...on the side of the United States, a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations,... | |
 | Diana Childress - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 90 pages
...the high seas and on the western frontier. He urged Congress to vote for war. "We behold," he said, "on the side of Great Britain a state of war against...United States a state of peace towards Great Britain." New Englanders objected to war because they thought the issues could be settled by diplomatic negotiation.... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...distinguished by features particularly shocking to humanity." As Madison summed up his view of the struggle, "We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain...on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain." Well aware of the constitutional constraints on the president in declaring war,... | |
 | William C. Martel - Law - 2006 - 311 pages
...conciliation have had no other effort than to encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions. . . . We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a...States, and on the side of the United States a state of war toward Great Britain." As Stagg observed (Mr. Madison's War, p. 3), "This declaration [of war]... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1858 - 802 pages
...lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, while arguments are employed in support of these aggressions, which have no foundation...on the side of the United States, a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | Russell D. Buhite - History - 2003 - 420 pages
...lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, whilst arguments are employed in support of these aggressions which have no foundation...on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 1092 pages
...or forced or inveigled in lintish ports into British fleets ; • whilst arguments are employed in support of these aggressions, which have no foundation...whatsoever. , We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Brit.'iin, a state of war against the United Stales : and, on the side of the United Suites, a state... | |
 | Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...have no foundation out in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external comteerce in all cases whatsoever. We behold, in fine, on the....and, on the side of the United States, a state of peacq towards Great Britain. Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive... | |
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We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain. 
